Campus & Community

The Rev. M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., author and internationally known leader of the Centering Prayer movement, will lead a two-evening talk and workshop on the practice of Centering Prayer on Wednesday, March 20, and Thursday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Centering Prayer is a contemplative practice rooted in ancient texts, the living tradition of finding union with God. The method has its origin in the early monastic tradition of the church and the wisdom of the church fathers, reaching back to the sixth century. The event is free and open to the public, with free parking available at the Broadway Garage on Felton Street.

With new technology driving education reform, a host of new programs, disciplines, and teaching configurations are emerging, from packages that combine elements of traditional classroom teaching with distance learning components to intensive continuing education programs that are intended to replace more traditional full-time campus classes.

One of the main disadvantages facing the Democratic Party today is that it has lost its bully pulpit, said U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif.

Harvard Foundation to host Molina

In his opening remarks at the Institute of Politics-sponsored panel discussion on the future of the Republican Party, Harvard College Republican Club President Brian Grech recounted a comment made by a former IOP fellow: You know, Brian, he said, I used to think I knew what it was like to be a minority, because Im Latino. But I didnt really know what a minority was until I was a Republican at Harvard.

Annys Shin, a senior writer for the Washington City Paper, has been awarded the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship for in-depth reporting to cover the impact of the release of prisoners finishing their mandatory sentences. Shin, 29, will receive $10,000 to fund research and writing of the project.

A new Harvard center is taking aim at neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Huntingtons, and Lou Gehrigs disease, using a collaborative approach and a combination of weapons to foster research aimed at advancing knowledge about the diseases and quickly applying that knowledge to the needs of patients.

Three of the 21st centurys foremost writers of English gathered at Harvard March 8 to read from their works. Sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, Americas oldest college literary magazine, the event featured poet John Ashbery 49, and prose writers Jamaica Kincaid and Salman Rushdie.

In an effort to improve medical teaching in an era when research is king and technology and societal changes are dramatically revising what it means to be a doctor, Harvard Medical School is launching an organization to recognize and support its best teachers and to innovate in medical education.

Can the nations oldest university, one with its roots sunk deep in American soil, embrace globalization? And what does this buzzword of globalization mean for education beyond swapping students across national borders?

Russian journalists struggling to maintain freedom of expression found an influential ally last month – Harvard University.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Harvard a $40 million chemistry grant to develop a laboratory that will dramatically enhance researchers ability to find the proteins involved in disease and identify agents that can manipulate them.

Martians battled humanity at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Thursday night (March 7), and, to the delight of a partisan home crowd, the humans won.

When Gweneth Newman and Katherine Alberg Anderson decided to enter a design competition as a final project in their course on watershed management, they had no idea that they would end up $5,000 richer.

Since 1985, Harvard libraries increased spending on serial publications by 162 percent, while the total number of serials they purchased rose only 7 percent. Part of this disparity reflects the addition of electronic versions of journals, yet it also represents the expanding gap between the price of information and the ability of libraries to purchase it – a gap that demands new models of scholarly communication. The Harvard library community recently gathered to explore the issue at a program called Transforming Scholarly Communication. The meeting was aimed at raising awareness in the library community in anticipation of taking these issues to faculty and graduate students.

Terrorism can be located in the human heart. Soft-spoken Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh spoke these words to a hushed crowd at the Memorial Church March 8. We can remove terrorism from the human heart through the practice of deep listening. Deep listening can help remove wrong perceptions.

From National Public Radio to pierced teenagers in the yarn store, everyone knows that knitting is suddenly cool. Its the new yoga, says one magazine article its part of a post-Sept. 11 trend toward cocooning, say psychologists.

Robert Nozick, Pellegrino University Professor, will be remembered at a memorial service next Thursday, March 21, 2 p.m., in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow at the Faculty Club.

Antin named president-elect of ASBMT

Despite the numbers – 13 straight wins and a No. 13 seed – its not luck thats taken the Harvard womens basketball team to its 4th appearance at the NCAA Tournament this Saturday (March 16) in Chapel Hill, N.C. That fact can be squarely blamed on forward Hana Peljto 04 and center Reka Cserny 05. Harvards fab frontcourt – recently named the Ivy Leagues Player and Rookie of the Year, respectively – led the Crimson with 36 combined points per game, a 22-5 overall record, and an Ivy title.

Daniel Lieberman can see millions of years of human evolution at a glance. The collection of skulls on his office shelves come from chimpanzees, long-extinct humans, and modern men and women. The hollow eye sockets, ancient teeth, and empty skulls pose the same question every day: What made us different from our archaic ancestors?

As a result of productive collective bargaining, Harvard University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 have reached agreement on a new contract that will significantly increase wages and address the affordability of health care for Harvards custodial workers. The contract represents the commitment of Harvard and the union to maintaining a constructive relationship and includes many significant improvements for Harvards workers.

In last weeks Harvard in history column, the item for February 1963 incorrectly stated that Harvard University Press had occupied Randall Hall since 1916. The correct occupant was the University Printing Office.

At its 11th meeting of the year President Summers met with the Council to discuss the selection of the next dean of the Faculty.

March 27, 1737 – President Benjamin Wadsworth dies in office.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, March 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A couple of soaked, silhouetted figures framed by a doorway of Annenberg Hall apparently have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

Most people wouldnt walk a tightrope unless they knew there was a safety net below.

The father had high expectations for his son, hoping perhaps that he would write great literature one day. So he named the child Shakespeare, no small burden for a boy brought up on a farm on the West Indian island of Dominica. And with a surname of Christmas, you might expect a personage as windy and colorful as a Dickens character. But Shakespeare Christmas, known to his friends as Chris, is a shy, unassuming man of 54 who works as a custodian in the Music Department at Paine Hall. He acknowledges falling short of his fathers grandiose goals, but is content, he says, to have helped pave the way for his own children.

Just minutes after the Harvard womens basketball team won its seventh Ivy League crown, beating Yale 77-65 on Friday (March 1), senior captain Katie Gates reflected on her own start, as a kid fan of the University of Kansas womens team.